Brookfield Unitarian Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.
Brookfield Unitarian Church
- WRENN ID
- gilded-gravel-curlew
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Gorton and Denton MP: Hannah Spencer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Brookfield Unitarian Church, Hyde Road, M18 7EE
- OS grid reference
- SJ 889 959
- Coordinates
- 53.45991, -2.16838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brookfield Unitarian Church is a Unitarian church built between 1869 and 1871 by architect Thomas Worthington. The church is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble and features a slate roof in the Early English style. It comprises a nave, north and south aisles, and a free-standing steeple attached to the north aisle near the west end, along with a chancel that has transepts.
The church's four-stage tower includes angle-buttresses, string-courses, an embattled parapet with corner gargoyles, and a tall slender broach spire. The tower features a two-centred arched north doorway, one and two lancet windows on the next two stages, paired two-light belfry windows with cusped lights, and lucarnes at the base of the spire. The six-bay nave has three-light clerestory windows, while the buttressed aisles have two-centred arched two-light windows. The transepts of the chancel also have similar windows, and there are large east and west windows. The gable copings are adorned with kneelers and apex crosses.
Inside, the church features aisle arcades made of sandstone supported by columns of pink polished granite, and the walls are plastered. The church was commissioned and endowed by Richard Peacock, an engineer and partner in the locomotive-building firm of Beyer and Peacock, at a cost of £12,000. It reflects the ecumenical nature of later 19th-century Unitarianism.
Local climate
Brookfield Unitarian Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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